Wireframe - #25 - 2019

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Vulpine

Are you sick of having things

like arms and opposable

thumbs? Then allow Vulpine

to make all your mammalian

fantasies come true. Assuming

the form of a four-legged

creature – a fox, rabbit, and

wolf are among the options

• you can roam a low-poly
  world, uncovering mysteries
  and fighting other creatures.
  But because you don’t have
  hands, you’ll carry swords and
  other weapons in your mouth.
  However the game turns out,
  we’re quite taken by the sight
  of a bear doing a spin attack
  while clenching a massive
  hammer between its teeth.

Teardown

Like Disintegration, Teardown is a game
designed to tax brains as well as reflexes.
The objective: barge your way into a series
of secure buildings and steal the keycards
hiding within. With each building defended by
an alarm system that will despatch a deadly
security team when triggered, Teardown breaks
down into two phases. In the first, you stalk
the area, working out where the keycards
are, and forging an efficient path through the
level by knocking down voxel doors and walls
to make shortcuts. The second phase begins
when you grab a keycard – from here, you have
a minute to run and jump around the stage,
getting the rest of the cards before the security
team appears. In short, it’s part physics-based
sandbox, part action-packed race against time

• which sounds like a heady cocktail to us.

Disintegration

How do you make something as complex as a
real-time strategy title work effectively with a
controller rather than a keyboard and mouse?
Plenty of developers have attempted to answer
that question in the past, but newcomer V
Interactive may have come up with a cunning
solution of its own. You fly above the battlefield
in a high-tech craft called a grav-cycle; from
this remote viewpoint, you can blast away at
enemies yourself, or essentially fire commands

to the armoured units trundling around beneath

you. There’ll be a single-player campaign and

a five-on-five competitive mode, and the game

as a whole looks really slick and solidly realised

from what we’ve seen so far. That V1 Interactive

was founded by Marcus Lehto – the co-creator

of Halo – only raises our anticipation levels

further. With Lehto at the helm, Disintegration

promises to give us a satisfying balance of sci-fi,

action, and tactics.

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